David Hart (1944-2011): educated at Eton College; film-producer; property developer; political adviser; arms industry lobbyist; farmer; playwright; novelist
Frank Johnson (1943-2006): educated at Shoreditch Secondary Modern; journalist for the Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph and The Times; parliamentary sketch-writer; editor of The Spectator (1995-99)
Sir Ronald Millar (1919-98): educated at Charterhouse and King’s College, Cambridge; actor; playwright; writer of musicals; Hollywood screenwriter; speechwriter
Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013): educated at Kesteven and Grantham Girls School and Somerville College, Oxford; research chemist; barrister; politician; British Prime Minister (1979-90)
Lord (Woodrow) Wyatt (1918-97): educated at Eastbourne College and Worcester College, Oxford; Labour politician; Conservative newspaper commentator; businessman; playwright; political adviser; diarist